My Dog Always Throws Up When She's On My Bed

[Cachorrita]

I started letting my dogs (labradors) sleep on my bed. Occasionally I would wake up to one of them heaving in the night but most of the time would get them on the floor before they threw up on the sheets and it was once in a blue moon. However, recently anytime my female lab has been on the bed she's thrown up without fail. It does not happen downstairs that I can see in their own beds, or in the garden, or when they are in their beds in the living room, but within half an hour of being on my bed now she barfs. Why is this? Is she making some sort of statement???? I love having them sleep on the bed with me, but I can't take this with her each time. They are happy dogs, lots of attention, walks, love... but why has this started happening out of the blue? She can go the whole night without doing it, unless she's on my good sheets!!!!

[Stitch]

Everyone is different however in hindsight the throwing up was the first sign of my older girls irritable bowel syndrome.

I would be thinking that this dog has an intollerance to something in her diet - I wouldn't be taking it personally so don't go thinking she is doing it deliberately rather that when she isn't feeling well, with mum is the best place to be.

Sometimes one dog just can't tolerate the fat in its diet or maybe some other component of what it is eating.

Sometimes feeding them at a different time helps.

First place I would start would be to ask what are you feeding??

[persephone]

When does she get fed in relation to her throwing up?

and yes- what are you feeding her ? (incl. treats)

[Cachorrita]

Absolutely nothing different than she's always had - she gets a couple of small dog biscuits about 5pm. And she only does it on my bed - if she sleeps on the floor next to my bed she doesn't do it, if she's in her own bed upstairs overnight she doesn't do it, only on my bed. Oh, and it's only if she's on my bed during the week! If I let them up on the bed late - say 12am - she will just crash the whole night through. And she will have been in the living room for hours - not throwing up.

She's also been checked out thoroughly as I'm taking them back to England soon, and she is a very healthy dog. She's 4.

I think this is a psychological problem, which is why I wondered if anyone had experienced the same.

[persephone]

Just thinking outside the box.... could it be a balance thing? perhaps she gets out of whack with the slight movements of the bed???

Some folks I know get very nauseous on a water bed!

[Tilly]

I was thinking ... there might be too much bouncing around happening in the bed. So maybe a balance problem or an ear problem :D

[Stitch]

What other food do you feed her??? ie dinner, etc.